My impression is that most traditional statistics courses are very bad (not even because of anything to do with frequentism, they're just very bad). Don't take one.

That's my impression as well. I've had to take a statistics course, and I wound up memorizing procedures enough to vomit it up on tests on homework. There wasn't really a coherent framework, so the least work method of passing the course was memorizing the teacher's passwords.

If you have to take a traditional statistics course, don't expect to get a solid understanding of statistics out of it. Perhaps you'll know how to use certain orthodox analysis methods.